Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thanks to two great Labor governments, the Albanese federal government and the Andrews state government, there are now 55,000 fee-free TAFE places available in Victoria, and people in my community are jumping aboard this opportunity. I encourage everyone: If you've been thinking about studying something new or upskilling, now is the time. Local fee-free TAFE and vocational education and training courses are open for enrolment, and this is your opportunity.

In Victoria we have job vacancies for bar attendants and baristas, advertising and marketing professionals, education aides, social workers, database and system administrators, and ICT security specialists. You can now study these occupations for free at Chisholm TAFE. And where else would you go? We are seeing shortages in the aged-care sector, in the care sector more broadly, in agriculture, in construction, in hospitality and tourism, in technology and in sovereign capability in manufacturing. We as a government want to deliver skilled workers at a time of acute skill shortages. We need that in Victoria, and you can do that at the wonderful Chisholm TAFE. There are students like Remy, who I met on my most recent visit to Frankston TAFE, who is studying nursing. She's getting the skills to look after people in hospitals and aged care. And if you want to look after people, there's an opportunity for you, too.